4 April 2011										
èArte 			jMonday 4/4. 14.45-16.20. LE PERE DE LA MARIEE/FATHER OF THE BRIDE. VM/Black & white. 1950. Dir.Vincente Minelli. With Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor.
k Wednesday 6/4 22.25-23.55. BETTER THINGS. VO 2008. Dir. Duane Hopkins. 
About people who are having problems with their lives. This film was made in the Cotswolds  (rich and beautiful) but the landscape in this film doesn’t look beautiful/ a threatening landscape.
lSunday 1O/4 20.40-22.15 VM AFTER HOURS 1985. Dir.Martin Scorsese. A black comedy about a young man who has a series of misadventures.
èFrance 3	 Sunday 10/4.0.45-2.20. LE TEMPS DE LA COLERE/BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL. 1956. VO. Dir.Richard Fleischer. With Robert Wagner. About the Second World War: World War II.
Series:
èTF1 		jTuesday 5/4 20.45-23.55 LES EXPERTS MANHATTAN/CSI
èW9. 		kWednesday 6/4 GLEE 20.40-23.10. Very successful in America. A glee club is a club where young people can sing, dance and act. 
èM6. 		lThursday 7/4. 20.45-0.50 : LIE TO ME. The main character is English and he has an Estuary English accent (it comes from the Thames estuary), it’s a fashionable accent, very similar to the London accent, a sort of milder version of cockney.
èM6		.4. Friday 8/4. 20.45-0.00: BONES VM
Documentary:
èArte. 		Friday 8/4 A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER; VO about a mafia godfather in Manchester. The film maker has followed this English Tony Soprano and his men for three years, plunging us into a world of violence and misery.

ALIENS		 are people from another planet, but  the word also has another meaning: ‘FOREIGNERS’ = people who are not British! Double meaning.
HOME OFFICE:	Ministry of the interior
TO SEARCH:	fouiller
TO LOOK FOR:	chercher
A BIN BAG:	sac poubelle
A PRESCRIPTION DRUG
A MEDICATION ON PRESCRIPTION‡ it’s sold over the counter at the PHARMACY/ CHEMIST’S (shop)
DIAGNOSIS
TONSILS:	amygdales. Have you had your tonsils out/ removed?
TONSILLITIS:	inflammation of the tonsils: angine, ou amygdalite.
CORTISONE
SINUSITIS
I WAS FLAT OUT: à plat, crevé
CHILDBIRTH:	accouchement
It depends on the individual case.
It’s settled:	c’est réglé, résolu, décidé.
MARK TWAIN:	real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910
CACTUSES/CACTI

1.	Write little or few.

1. There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. Francis Bacon
FRANCIS BACON: 	1909-1992: painter
1561-1626: English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, author.

2. A little learning is a dangerous thing. Alexander Pope
ALEXANDER POPE:	1688-1744: English poet.

3. Men of few words are the best men. William Shakespeare (Henri V)
4. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill
CHURCHILL: famous quotation/August 1940, about the Battle of Britain and a few young RAF pilots who saved so many people.

5. Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. Franklin Roosevelt
6. A country having a little inflation is like a woman being a little pregnant. Leon Henderson
LEON HENDERSON:	1895-1986: Economic Adviser to Roosevelt.

7. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers:
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother. W. Shakespeare (Henry V)

8. Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily as lying down. Woody Allen
     N.B. ‘as’  = printing error